Tatum Bates
Tatum Baylee Bates is an aspiring film and theater actor. A theater major at Florida Gulf Coast University now in her third year, Tatum is poised to make her Ghostbird Theatre Company stage debut in Jim Brock’s No Single Body for Me to Follow.
Tatum’s stage credits include Thorton Wilder’s Our Town for the Centers for the Performing Arts Bonita Springs Community Players, Hamlet in FGCU TheatreLab’s Hamlet, Katherine Stockmann in FGCU TheatreLab’s Enemy of the People, Livvy in Mountain Mamas in Florida Repertory Theatre’s Play Lab, Player #7 in The Wolves and Linda in Evil Dead: The Musical in Lab Theater Education’s summer intensive camp and Dr. Knef in 
Radium Girls.
Bates’ film credits include Kaylee in DBS Films’ A Cold Grave as well as Horror in the Forest, the mystery thriller Todd and as Puss in Ghostbird Theatre Company’s filmplay Too Many Words by Barry Cavin.
Tatum moved with her family when she was 2 from Colorado to Fort Myers. At the tender age of eight, Tatum began acting in her elementary school’s 
production and she has been actively pursuing a career as a stage and film actor ever since.
Tatum is a graduate of Cypress Lakes High School and past participant in the Junior Theater Festival in Atlanta, Georgia.
October 22, 2023.
About the Author
Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.